Name in the record
PALANISAMY
Also on ballots as Palanisamy
SMNK·IND·ICS
This is almost certainly more than one person
The dataset carries no candidate identifier, so every ballot line reading “PALANISAMY” is grouped by name alone. This record shows a 55-year span across 15 contests — patterns a single career can’t produce. Read each block below as its own thread, and treat the totals as counts for the name, not for a person.
Ballot lines
15
1971–2026
Wins
0
Parties
3
States / UT
2
incl. Lok Sabha
Every contest
Grouped by state and by Lok Sabha — spelling variants are merged, and, without a candidate id, so are different people who share this name.
| Election | Constituency | Party | Votes | Share | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tamil Nadu13 contests · 1971–2026 · 0 won | |||||
| Tamil Nadu 2026 | 97. Kumarapalayam | SMNK | 71 | 0.0% | Lost · 17th |
| Tamil Nadu 2026 | 102. Kangayam | IND | 203 | 0.1% | Lost · 11th |
| Tamil Nadu 2001 | 113. Vellakoil | IND | 1,611 | 1.4% | Lost · 5th |
| Tamil Nadu 1996 | 104. Singanallur | ICS | 363 | 0.2% | Lost · 5th |
| Tamil Nadu 1996 | 118. Modakkurichi | IND | 9 | 0.0% | Lost · 192th |
| Tamil Nadu 1996 | 118. Modakkurichi | IND | 5 | 0.0% | Lost · 398th |
| Tamil Nadu 1996 | 118. Modakkurichi | IND | 3 | 0.0% | Lost · 535th |
| Tamil Nadu 1996 | 118. Modakkurichi | IND | 1 | 0.0% | Lost · 871th |
| Tamil Nadu 1996 | 118. Modakkurichi | IND | 1 | 0.0% | Lost · 873th |
| Tamil Nadu 1996 | 118. Modakkurichi | IND | 1 | 0.0% | Lost · 887th |
| Tamil Nadu 1989 | 123. Gobichettipalayam | IND | 236 | 0.2% | Lost · 9th |
| Tamil Nadu 1984 | 85. Taramangalam | IND | 215 | 0.2% | Lost · 7th |
| Tamil Nadu 1971 | 172. Valangiman | IND | 213 | 0.3% | Lost · 5th |
| Lok Sabha2 contests · 1989–1999 · 0 won | |||||
| Lok Sabha 1999 | 394. Gobichettipalayam | IND | 1,069 | 0.2% | Lost · 6th |
| Lok Sabha 1989 | 383. Palani | IND | 836 | 0.1% | Lost · 16th |